For-profit enterprises with operations in more than one state. MNCs are common but their role and impact in global politics is controversial.

published:27 Feb 2012

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The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

published:05 Oct 2017

views:33

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

published:28 Jan 2017

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Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international company that builds on the parent corporation's technology or R&D, or (4) a transnational enterprise that combines the previous three approaches. According to UN data, some 35,000 companies have direct investment in foreign countries, and the largest 100 of them control about 40 percent of world trade.
In economic terms, a firm’s advantages in establishing a multinational corporation include both vertical and horizontal economies of scale and an increased market share. Although cultural barriers can create unpredictable obstacles as companies establish offices and production plants around the world, a firm’s technical expertise, experienced personnel, and proven strategies usually can be transferred from country to country. Critics of the multinational corporation usually view it as an economic and, often, political means of foreign domination.
By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
Learn More:
Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyists have too much power and are least likely to say the same about the military."
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/lobbyist-regulation.aspx
LobbyistRegulation
Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An EmpiricalCaseStudy of Tax Breaks for Multinational Corporations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
"In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American JobsCreation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying."
Lobbying for the Greater Good
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/
"Earlier this month, scientists reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 400 parts per million."
For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%
http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
"Amidst a growing federal deficit and widespread economic insecurity for most Americans, some of the largest corporations in the country have avoided paying their fair share in taxes while spending millions to lobby Congress and influence elections."
So Who's a Lobbyist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist.html?_r=0
Under the federal lobbying law, Newt Gingrich can legitimately claim that he is not a lobbyist.
ObamaTransition announces rules for lobbyists in Transition
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/obama_transition_announces_rules_for_lobbyists_in_transition/
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
Obama slams lobbyists, then hires a lobbyist to help promote Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/administration-changed-its-tune-hired-lobbying-fir/?page=all
"On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration, but his health care agency last month gave a half-million-dollar grant to a registered lobbying firm to help enroll people for Obamacare as Affordable Care Act "navigators."
W.H. to reverse part of lobbyist ban
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/lobbyist-ban-reversal-white-house-109951.html#.U-o9ap01lZY.twitter
"The White House is poised to reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government."
Former White House lawyer defends Obama limits on lobbying, hints at possible changes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-defends-obama-limits-on-lobbying-hints-at-possible-changes/2014/03/23/c84e28da-aeb6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
"Before Bob Bauer started his lunchtime speech at a recent conference, his host wanted to make absolutely certain that the former White House counsel knew his audience."
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[English subtitles available]
Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networking, and conceptual collaboration between individuals, organisations and institutions working in a variety of disciplines transnationally, and offers a trampoline for future collaborations and initiatives.
www.transnationaldialogues.eu

published:17 Aug 2016

views:32

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Multinational Corporations

For-profit enterprises with operations in more than one state. MNCs are common but their role and impact in global politics is controversial.

1:31:00

International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

5:53

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

1:57

What is a Multinational Corporation?

What is a Multinational Corporation?

What is a Multinational Corporation?

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international company that builds on the parent corporation's technology or R&D, or (4) a transnational enterprise that combines the previous three approaches. According to UN data, some 35,000 companies have direct investment in foreign countries, and the largest 100 of them control about 40 percent of world trade.
In economic terms, a firm’s advantages in establishing a multinational corporation include both vertical and horizontal economies of scale and an increased market share. Although cultural barriers can create unpredictable obstacles as companies establish offices and production plants around the world, a firm’s technical expertise, experienced personnel, and proven strategies usually can be transferred from country to country. Critics of the multinational corporation usually view it as an economic and, often, political means of foreign domination.
By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy

Estushi Ohono amazing art work at Transnational Art 2014 大野 悦司

What Is Lobbying and Can It Be Good?

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
Learn More:
Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyists have too much power and are least likely to say the same about the military."
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/lobbyist-regulation.aspx
LobbyistRegulation
Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An EmpiricalCaseStudy of Tax Breaks for Multinational Corporations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
"In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American JobsCreation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying."
Lobbying for the Greater Good
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/
"Earlier this month, scientists reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 400 parts per million."
For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%
http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
"Amidst a growing federal deficit and widespread economic insecurity for most Americans, some of the largest corporations in the country have avoided paying their fair share in taxes while spending millions to lobby Congress and influence elections."
So Who's a Lobbyist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist.html?_r=0
Under the federal lobbying law, Newt Gingrich can legitimately claim that he is not a lobbyist.
ObamaTransition announces rules for lobbyists in Transition
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/obama_transition_announces_rules_for_lobbyists_in_transition/
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
Obama slams lobbyists, then hires a lobbyist to help promote Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/administration-changed-its-tune-hired-lobbying-fir/?page=all
"On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration, but his health care agency last month gave a half-million-dollar grant to a registered lobbying firm to help enroll people for Obamacare as Affordable Care Act "navigators."
W.H. to reverse part of lobbyist ban
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/lobbyist-ban-reversal-white-house-109951.html#.U-o9ap01lZY.twitter
"The White House is poised to reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government."
Former White House lawyer defends Obama limits on lobbying, hints at possible changes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-defends-obama-limits-on-lobbying-hints-at-possible-changes/2014/03/23/c84e28da-aeb6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
"Before Bob Bauer started his lunchtime speech at a recent conference, his host wanted to make absolutely certain that the former White House counsel knew his audience."
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What PowersDoes President Obama Legally Have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milg9b0rPLQ&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
Should US Citizenship Be Guaranteed At Birth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qniAcNn8eQE&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
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Transnational Dialogues | Interview with Julijana Nicha

[English subtitles available]
Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networking, and conceptual collaboration between individuals, organisations and institutions working in a variety of disciplines transnationally, and offers a trampoline for future collaborations and initiatives.
www.transnationaldialogues.eu

20:30

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

6:16

film EOR Works Councils

film EOR Works Councils

film EOR Works Councils

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to be properly informed and consulted at European level for these processes to be managed in a balanced and socially responsible way. European Works Councils (EWCs) fulfil this role, representing all European employees of a company in meetings with central management. In any company employing over 1 000 employees in at least two EU Member States, transnational information and consultation of employees through the creation of an EWC is a right underpinned by a European Directive, which has been reinforced.

2:41

English for Hotel and Tourism: "Checking into a hotel" by LinguaTV

English for Hotel and Tourism: "Checking into a hotel" by LinguaTV

English for Hotel and Tourism: "Checking into a hotel" by LinguaTV

For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070 ´
About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers an award winning Online-Video-Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The basis of the course is a series of professionally produced videos which cover a range of professions in the hotel and restaurant industries. The focus of the videos, which were produced in cooperation with the hospitality association and a notable 5-star hotel chain, is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations. More video tutorials at http://www.linguatv.com
About the episode "Checking In"
Storyline: Tom Sanders has arrived at the Transnational hotel. After a long flight from San Francisco, he is happy to have arrived, but due to a problem with the booking system there is no double room available for him. Where will Tom go? You will find more fascinating episodes at http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
What you will learn:
• checking in a guest
• politely expressing confusion
• apologizing for booking errors
• compensating the guest
• explaining hotel services and amenities
• initiating small talk
• giving directions
For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
learn English, language course, Sprachkurs, Englisch lernen.

19:54

Transnational Feminism

Transnational Feminism

Transnational Feminism

MeenaSeshu is a feminist activist in India and works with the grassroots organization, SANGRAM (http://www.sangram.org/default.aspx). SANGRAM is based in Sangli district, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai. Meena also works with a sex workers collective called VAMP, which was established in 1996 and is managed and led by sex workers. VAMP began as an HIV prevention project, distributing condoms and educating people in their community about safe sex. (http://saveusfromsaviours.net/?p=28)

Transnational Company Video

Transnational imaginaries in contemporary literature (FRENCH)

02.08.2018. This round table discussion was held as part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and’Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals.”
The event was presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe; MiguelLucas, the director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, and MichelBertrand, the director of Casa Velázquez. It was moderated by Abraham Bengio, the professor who chairs the department of ClassicalLetters and a member of the Maison d’IzieuBoard of Trustees, as well as included presentations by writer Muhsin Al-Ramli; writer and journalist Pierre Assouline, and writer Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Transnationalism as a concept and focus proposes studying migratory phenomena on the basis of cross-border exchanges and relations between communities that go beyond just the national framework. These phenomena have a powerful impact on the societies of both origin and destination in every aspect, and on the construction of identity. This meeting held at Casa Árabe is precisely an attempt to clarify the role held by literature in constructing the identity of exiled communities, as is the case with the “pieds-noirs” and Sephardic Jews, whose paths in contemporary Spain have been marked by movement and the loss of territorial references. To study this, the organizers have invited the most important representatives from the world of contemporary literature whose works highlight the way in which existential questions about exile and nostalgia are dealt with.
This round table discussion forms part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and ‘Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals” (Centro Sefarad-Israel, February 8-9, 2018), organized jointly by Casa de Velázquez and Centro Sefarad-Israel.
More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/transnational-imaginaries-in-contemporary-literature

2:26

Transnational Internet-Project "Maya"

Transnational Internet-Project "Maya"

Transnational Internet-Project "Maya"

As a part of the 50 years long-term anti-drug program under the "No hard drugs! slogan, on February 2nd of 2012 the World League "MindFree of Drug" gives a good start to the second stage of the Transnational online project "Maya".
The goal of the Transnational online project "Maya (Illusion from Sanskrit) is to catalyze the chain reaction towards drug addiction, causing social rejection of drug addiction as of a lifestyle. The global result of anti-drug movement is the formation of social matrix of conscious psychological immunity to drugs in the community.
The Organizing Committee of the "Maya" project will receive works based on real events on its official e-mail address: info@mayaplanet.org in 4 categories: videos, photography, drawing and confessional story. The contest accepts anti-drug works that reflect the vision and understanding the seriousness of the problem by the participants. Any person who has reached the age of 10 years and who is not indifferent to the problem of drug addiction can participate in the contest.
The contest works authors will be presented to money awards and prizes valued in accordance with the nominations.
For more information about the project visit our website http://www.mayaplanet.org

16:15

What Borders Tell Us About The World: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar at TEDxStanford

What Borders Tell Us About The World: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar at TEDxStanford

What Borders Tell Us About The World: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar at TEDxStanford

With an extensive record of public service, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar works at the intersection of law, public policy and political science.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who has served in two presidential administrations and has testified before lawmakers, focuses his teaching on administrative law and governance, public organizations and transnational security. He has worked on criminal justice and drug policy, borders and immigration, and food safety standards.
A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, Cuéllar is the Stanley MorrisonProfessor of Law and co-director of the Centerfor International Security and Cooperation. Cuéllar received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in political science from Stanford.

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
Subscribe To My Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFWz1e3VXKOoJ-E5cep1Eg
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Thought.Monkey.Community/
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SoulChef – Blind Man See
https://www.youtube.com/user/soulchefmusic
Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a litt...

published: 28 Jan 2017

What is a Multinational Corporation?

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international com...

published: 03 Feb 2015

Estushi Ohono amazing art work at Transnational Art 2014 大野 悦司

What Is Lobbying and Can It Be Good?

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
Learn More:
Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyist...

Transnational Dialogues | Interview with Julijana Nicha

[English subtitles available]
Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networki...

published: 17 Aug 2016

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

published: 19 Dec 2013

film EOR Works Councils

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to be properly informed and consulted at European level for these processes to be managed in a balanced and socially responsible way. European Works Councils (EWCs) fulfil this role, representing all European employees of a company in meetings with central management. In any company employing over 1 000 employees in at least two EU Member States, transnational information and consultation of employees through the creation of an EWC is a right underpinned by a European Directive, which has been reinforced.

published: 12 Feb 2013

English for Hotel and Tourism: "Checking into a hotel" by LinguaTV

For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070 ´
About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers an award winning Online-Video-Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The basis of the course is a series of professionally produced videos which cover a range of professions in the hotel and restaurant industries. The focus of the videos, which were produced in cooperation with the hospitality association and a notable 5-star hotel chain, is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations. More video tutorials at http://www.linguatv.com
About the episode "Checking In"
St...

published: 06 Feb 2010

Transnational Feminism

MeenaSeshu is a feminist activist in India and works with the grassroots organization, SANGRAM (http://www.sangram.org/default.aspx). SANGRAM is based in Sangli district, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai. Meena also works with a sex workers collective called VAMP, which was established in 1996 and is managed and led by sex workers. VAMP began as an HIV prevention project, distributing condoms and educating people in their community about safe sex. (http://saveusfromsaviours.net/?p=28)

Transnational Internet-Project "Maya"

As a part of the 50 years long-term anti-drug program under the "No hard drugs! slogan, on February 2nd of 2012 the World League "MindFree of Drug" gives a good start to the second stage of the Transnational online project "Maya".
The goal of the Transnational online project "Maya (Illusion from Sanskrit) is to catalyze the chain reaction towards drug addiction, causing social rejection of drug addiction as of a lifestyle. The global result of anti-drug movement is the formation of social matrix of conscious psychological immunity to drugs in the community.
The Organizing Committee of the "Maya" project will receive works based on real events on its official e-mail address: info@mayaplanet.org in 4 categories: videos, photography, drawing and confessional story. The contest accepts a...

published: 20 Mar 2012

What Borders Tell Us About The World: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar at TEDxStanford

With an extensive record of public service, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar works at the intersection of law, public policy and political science.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who has served in two presidential administrations and has testified before lawmakers, focuses his teaching on administrative law and governance, public organizations and transnational security. He has worked on criminal justice and drug policy, borders and immigration, and food safety standards.
A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, Cuéllar is the Stanley MorrisonProfessor of Law and co-director of the Centerfor International Security and Cooperation. Cuéllar received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in political science from Stanford.

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our ...

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
Subscribe To My Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFWz1e3VXKOoJ-E5cep1Eg
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Thought.Monkey.Community/
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SoulChef – Blind Man See
https://www.youtube.com/user/soulchefmusic
Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
Subscribe To My Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFWz1e3VXKOoJ-E5cep1Eg
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Thought.Monkey.Community/
MusicCredits:
SoulChef – Blind Man See
https://www.youtube.com/user/soulchefmusic
Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

What is a Multinational Corporation?

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country ot...

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international company that builds on the parent corporation's technology or R&D, or (4) a transnational enterprise that combines the previous three approaches. According to UN data, some 35,000 companies have direct investment in foreign countries, and the largest 100 of them control about 40 percent of world trade.
In economic terms, a firm’s advantages in establishing a multinational corporation include both vertical and horizontal economies of scale and an increased market share. Although cultural barriers can create unpredictable obstacles as companies establish offices and production plants around the world, a firm’s technical expertise, experienced personnel, and proven strategies usually can be transferred from country to country. Critics of the multinational corporation usually view it as an economic and, often, political means of foreign domination.
By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international company that builds on the parent corporation's technology or R&D, or (4) a transnational enterprise that combines the previous three approaches. According to UN data, some 35,000 companies have direct investment in foreign countries, and the largest 100 of them control about 40 percent of world trade.
In economic terms, a firm’s advantages in establishing a multinational corporation include both vertical and horizontal economies of scale and an increased market share. Although cultural barriers can create unpredictable obstacles as companies establish offices and production plants around the world, a firm’s technical expertise, experienced personnel, and proven strategies usually can be transferred from country to country. Critics of the multinational corporation usually view it as an economic and, often, political means of foreign domination.
By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy

What Is Lobbying and Can It Be Good?

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbyin...

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
Learn More:
Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyists have too much power and are least likely to say the same about the military."
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/lobbyist-regulation.aspx
LobbyistRegulation
Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An EmpiricalCaseStudy of Tax Breaks for Multinational Corporations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
"In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American JobsCreation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying."
Lobbying for the Greater Good
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/
"Earlier this month, scientists reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 400 parts per million."
For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%
http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
"Amidst a growing federal deficit and widespread economic insecurity for most Americans, some of the largest corporations in the country have avoided paying their fair share in taxes while spending millions to lobby Congress and influence elections."
So Who's a Lobbyist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist.html?_r=0
Under the federal lobbying law, Newt Gingrich can legitimately claim that he is not a lobbyist.
ObamaTransition announces rules for lobbyists in Transition
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/obama_transition_announces_rules_for_lobbyists_in_transition/
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
Obama slams lobbyists, then hires a lobbyist to help promote Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/administration-changed-its-tune-hired-lobbying-fir/?page=all
"On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration, but his health care agency last month gave a half-million-dollar grant to a registered lobbying firm to help enroll people for Obamacare as Affordable Care Act "navigators."
W.H. to reverse part of lobbyist ban
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/lobbyist-ban-reversal-white-house-109951.html#.U-o9ap01lZY.twitter
"The White House is poised to reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government."
Former White House lawyer defends Obama limits on lobbying, hints at possible changes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-defends-obama-limits-on-lobbying-hints-at-possible-changes/2014/03/23/c84e28da-aeb6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
"Before Bob Bauer started his lunchtime speech at a recent conference, his host wanted to make absolutely certain that the former White House counsel knew his audience."
Watch More:
What PowersDoes President Obama Legally Have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milg9b0rPLQ&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
Should US Citizenship Be Guaranteed At Birth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qniAcNn8eQE&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
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A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
Learn More:
Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyists have too much power and are least likely to say the same about the military."
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/lobbyist-regulation.aspx
LobbyistRegulation
Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An EmpiricalCaseStudy of Tax Breaks for Multinational Corporations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
"In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American JobsCreation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying."
Lobbying for the Greater Good
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/
"Earlier this month, scientists reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 400 parts per million."
For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%
http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
"Amidst a growing federal deficit and widespread economic insecurity for most Americans, some of the largest corporations in the country have avoided paying their fair share in taxes while spending millions to lobby Congress and influence elections."
So Who's a Lobbyist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist.html?_r=0
Under the federal lobbying law, Newt Gingrich can legitimately claim that he is not a lobbyist.
ObamaTransition announces rules for lobbyists in Transition
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/obama_transition_announces_rules_for_lobbyists_in_transition/
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
Obama slams lobbyists, then hires a lobbyist to help promote Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/administration-changed-its-tune-hired-lobbying-fir/?page=all
"On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration, but his health care agency last month gave a half-million-dollar grant to a registered lobbying firm to help enroll people for Obamacare as Affordable Care Act "navigators."
W.H. to reverse part of lobbyist ban
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/lobbyist-ban-reversal-white-house-109951.html#.U-o9ap01lZY.twitter
"The White House is poised to reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government."
Former White House lawyer defends Obama limits on lobbying, hints at possible changes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-defends-obama-limits-on-lobbying-hints-at-possible-changes/2014/03/23/c84e28da-aeb6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
"Before Bob Bauer started his lunchtime speech at a recent conference, his host wanted to make absolutely certain that the former White House counsel knew his audience."
Watch More:
What PowersDoes President Obama Legally Have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=milg9b0rPLQ&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
Should US Citizenship Be Guaranteed At Birth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qniAcNn8eQE&list=UUgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA
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Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testtubenetwork
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[English subtitles available]
Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networking, and conceptual collaboration between individuals, organisations and institutions working in a variety of disciplines transnationally, and offers a trampoline for future collaborations and initiatives.
www.transnationaldialogues.eu

[English subtitles available]
Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networking, and conceptual collaboration between individuals, organisations and institutions working in a variety of disciplines transnationally, and offers a trampoline for future collaborations and initiatives.
www.transnationaldialogues.eu

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widesp...

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

film EOR Works Councils

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to b...

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to be properly informed and consulted at European level for these processes to be managed in a balanced and socially responsible way. European Works Councils (EWCs) fulfil this role, representing all European employees of a company in meetings with central management. In any company employing over 1 000 employees in at least two EU Member States, transnational information and consultation of employees through the creation of an EWC is a right underpinned by a European Directive, which has been reinforced.

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to be properly informed and consulted at European level for these processes to be managed in a balanced and socially responsible way. European Works Councils (EWCs) fulfil this role, representing all European employees of a company in meetings with central management. In any company employing over 1 000 employees in at least two EU Member States, transnational information and consultation of employees through the creation of an EWC is a right underpinned by a European Directive, which has been reinforced.

English for Hotel and Tourism: "Checking into a hotel" by LinguaTV

For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070 ´
About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers an award winning Onlin...

For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070 ´
About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers an award winning Online-Video-Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The basis of the course is a series of professionally produced videos which cover a range of professions in the hotel and restaurant industries. The focus of the videos, which were produced in cooperation with the hospitality association and a notable 5-star hotel chain, is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations. More video tutorials at http://www.linguatv.com
About the episode "Checking In"
Storyline: Tom Sanders has arrived at the Transnational hotel. After a long flight from San Francisco, he is happy to have arrived, but due to a problem with the booking system there is no double room available for him. Where will Tom go? You will find more fascinating episodes at http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
What you will learn:
• checking in a guest
• politely expressing confusion
• apologizing for booking errors
• compensating the guest
• explaining hotel services and amenities
• initiating small talk
• giving directions
For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
learn English, language course, Sprachkurs, Englisch lernen.

For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070 ´
About "English for Hotel and Tourism":
LinguaTV offers an award winning Online-Video-Training which is designed for English learners and speakers at a intermediate level, who are employed in, or planning to work in the field of tourism. The basis of the course is a series of professionally produced videos which cover a range of professions in the hotel and restaurant industries. The focus of the videos, which were produced in cooperation with the hospitality association and a notable 5-star hotel chain, is on how employees in these fields communicate and deal with customers in a variety of typical work-related situations. More video tutorials at http://www.linguatv.com
About the episode "Checking In"
Storyline: Tom Sanders has arrived at the Transnational hotel. After a long flight from San Francisco, he is happy to have arrived, but due to a problem with the booking system there is no double room available for him. Where will Tom go? You will find more fascinating episodes at http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
What you will learn:
• checking in a guest
• politely expressing confusion
• apologizing for booking errors
• compensating the guest
• explaining hotel services and amenities
• initiating small talk
• giving directions
For more information please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10070
learn English, language course, Sprachkurs, Englisch lernen.

Transnational Feminism

MeenaSeshu is a feminist activist in India and works with the grassroots organization, SANGRAM (http://www.sangram.org/default.aspx). SANGRAM is based in Sangl...

MeenaSeshu is a feminist activist in India and works with the grassroots organization, SANGRAM (http://www.sangram.org/default.aspx). SANGRAM is based in Sangli district, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai. Meena also works with a sex workers collective called VAMP, which was established in 1996 and is managed and led by sex workers. VAMP began as an HIV prevention project, distributing condoms and educating people in their community about safe sex. (http://saveusfromsaviours.net/?p=28)

MeenaSeshu is a feminist activist in India and works with the grassroots organization, SANGRAM (http://www.sangram.org/default.aspx). SANGRAM is based in Sangli district, which has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai. Meena also works with a sex workers collective called VAMP, which was established in 1996 and is managed and led by sex workers. VAMP began as an HIV prevention project, distributing condoms and educating people in their community about safe sex. (http://saveusfromsaviours.net/?p=28)

02.08.2018. This round table discussion was held as part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and’Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals.”
The event was presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe; MiguelLucas, the director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, and MichelBertrand, the director of Casa Velázquez. It was moderated by Abraham Bengio, the professor who chairs the department of ClassicalLetters and a member of the Maison d’IzieuBoard of Trustees, as well as included presentations by writer Muhsin Al-Ramli; writer and journalist Pierre Assouline, and writer Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Transnationalism as a concept and focus proposes studying migratory phenomena on the basis of cross-border exchanges and relations between communities that go beyond just the national framework. These phenomena have a powerful impact on the societies of both origin and destination in every aspect, and on the construction of identity. This meeting held at Casa Árabe is precisely an attempt to clarify the role held by literature in constructing the identity of exiled communities, as is the case with the “pieds-noirs” and Sephardic Jews, whose paths in contemporary Spain have been marked by movement and the loss of territorial references. To study this, the organizers have invited the most important representatives from the world of contemporary literature whose works highlight the way in which existential questions about exile and nostalgia are dealt with.
This round table discussion forms part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and ‘Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals” (Centro Sefarad-Israel, February 8-9, 2018), organized jointly by Casa de Velázquez and Centro Sefarad-Israel.
More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/transnational-imaginaries-in-contemporary-literature

02.08.2018. This round table discussion was held as part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and’Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals.”
The event was presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe; MiguelLucas, the director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, and MichelBertrand, the director of Casa Velázquez. It was moderated by Abraham Bengio, the professor who chairs the department of ClassicalLetters and a member of the Maison d’IzieuBoard of Trustees, as well as included presentations by writer Muhsin Al-Ramli; writer and journalist Pierre Assouline, and writer Antonio Muñoz Molina.
Transnationalism as a concept and focus proposes studying migratory phenomena on the basis of cross-border exchanges and relations between communities that go beyond just the national framework. These phenomena have a powerful impact on the societies of both origin and destination in every aspect, and on the construction of identity. This meeting held at Casa Árabe is precisely an attempt to clarify the role held by literature in constructing the identity of exiled communities, as is the case with the “pieds-noirs” and Sephardic Jews, whose paths in contemporary Spain have been marked by movement and the loss of territorial references. To study this, the organizers have invited the most important representatives from the world of contemporary literature whose works highlight the way in which existential questions about exile and nostalgia are dealt with.
This round table discussion forms part of the international colloquium “Transnational communities in contemporary Spain: Sephardic Jews and ‘Pieds-Noirs.’ Identities and their portrayals” (Centro Sefarad-Israel, February 8-9, 2018), organized jointly by Casa de Velázquez and Centro Sefarad-Israel.
More info: http://en.casaarabe.es/event/transnational-imaginaries-in-contemporary-literature

As a part of the 50 years long-term anti-drug program under the "No hard drugs! slogan, on February 2nd of 2012 the World League "MindFree of Drug" gives a good start to the second stage of the Transnational online project "Maya".
The goal of the Transnational online project "Maya (Illusion from Sanskrit) is to catalyze the chain reaction towards drug addiction, causing social rejection of drug addiction as of a lifestyle. The global result of anti-drug movement is the formation of social matrix of conscious psychological immunity to drugs in the community.
The Organizing Committee of the "Maya" project will receive works based on real events on its official e-mail address: info@mayaplanet.org in 4 categories: videos, photography, drawing and confessional story. The contest accepts anti-drug works that reflect the vision and understanding the seriousness of the problem by the participants. Any person who has reached the age of 10 years and who is not indifferent to the problem of drug addiction can participate in the contest.
The contest works authors will be presented to money awards and prizes valued in accordance with the nominations.
For more information about the project visit our website http://www.mayaplanet.org

As a part of the 50 years long-term anti-drug program under the "No hard drugs! slogan, on February 2nd of 2012 the World League "MindFree of Drug" gives a good start to the second stage of the Transnational online project "Maya".
The goal of the Transnational online project "Maya (Illusion from Sanskrit) is to catalyze the chain reaction towards drug addiction, causing social rejection of drug addiction as of a lifestyle. The global result of anti-drug movement is the formation of social matrix of conscious psychological immunity to drugs in the community.
The Organizing Committee of the "Maya" project will receive works based on real events on its official e-mail address: info@mayaplanet.org in 4 categories: videos, photography, drawing and confessional story. The contest accepts anti-drug works that reflect the vision and understanding the seriousness of the problem by the participants. Any person who has reached the age of 10 years and who is not indifferent to the problem of drug addiction can participate in the contest.
The contest works authors will be presented to money awards and prizes valued in accordance with the nominations.
For more information about the project visit our website http://www.mayaplanet.org

published:20 Mar 2012

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What Borders Tell Us About The World: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar at TEDxStanford

With an extensive record of public service, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar works at the intersection of law, public policy and political science.
Mariano-Florentin...

With an extensive record of public service, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar works at the intersection of law, public policy and political science.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who has served in two presidential administrations and has testified before lawmakers, focuses his teaching on administrative law and governance, public organizations and transnational security. He has worked on criminal justice and drug policy, borders and immigration, and food safety standards.
A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, Cuéllar is the Stanley MorrisonProfessor of Law and co-director of the Centerfor International Security and Cooperation. Cuéllar received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in political science from Stanford.

With an extensive record of public service, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar works at the intersection of law, public policy and political science.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who has served in two presidential administrations and has testified before lawmakers, focuses his teaching on administrative law and governance, public organizations and transnational security. He has worked on criminal justice and drug policy, borders and immigration, and food safety standards.
A member of the Stanford faculty since 2001, Cuéllar is the Stanley MorrisonProfessor of Law and co-director of the Centerfor International Security and Cooperation. Cuéllar received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard, a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in political science from Stanford.

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Dr. Greer has been involved in the highest levels of governments and military for over 25 years and will share what he has learned on the who, what, where and why of UFO secrecy, the deep transnational security state and the constellation of illegal projects that are currently operating.
Join the founder of the global Disclosure movement, Dr. Steven Greer, in Washington D.C. for a unique opportunity to listen to the most comprehensive and explosive expose of UFO secrecy ever presented!
- Nov. 21, 2015
This 4 hour workshop will include:
- How is secrecy maintained through the hybrid of corporate and government programs?
- Which military bases and facilities and which corporations are involved in this secrecy?
- How is black-budget and criminal activity funding these operations?
- ...

published: 24 Nov 2015

Why are we building Holochain, a (not short) conversation

Click SHOW MORE to see useful timestamped labels of the whole conversation.
Matthew Schutte, Will Harris-Braun, and Eric Harris-Braun. Why are we building Holochain?
!! Warning: this video has one instance of the work “fuck” in it. Other than that though, it’s pretty mild. Unless you’re afraid of snakes. Or revolutions. :slightly_smiling_face:
0:00 Brief small talk.
0:46 Talking about the structure and use of this conversation.
2:02 Will starts with his current, broad, understanding of Ceptr.
3:41 Out of the weeds: the bigger picture.
6:09 Intro to collective intelligence.
10:52 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: individuals.
16:12 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: groups.
18:04 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the individual voter.
21:11 Politics through the lens of...

Transnational feminism and Sex Worker's Rights movements

My next guest is MeenaSeshu of SANGRAM, a grassroots organization that works with women in the community to create a collective consciousness among women, to increase their ability to negotiate safety independently, and strengthen women to assert their rights. SANGRAM is renowned for its organizing and mobilization work among sex workers, and has been one of the leading voices in challenging the notion of sex work as sexual exploitation.

Forward thinking on transnational threats

This event from the IISS and the GlobalInitiative against Transnational Organized Crime followed a recent US National Defense University project on the emergence, over the past ten years, of a ‘highly adaptive and parasitic’ criminal ecosystem. Panellists explored its consequences for national security, state fragility and the global order.
The discussion addressed a host of questions, including: what is the role of social media in bolstering the appeal of anti-state actors, allowing them to establish ‘cult-like’ followings? To what extent are jihadist networks increasingly a part of the drug-smuggling business in West African ‘protection economies’? How is the growing grey space between licit and illicit commerce explored by global counterfeit and smuggling networks? And how have techno...

In the earlier Modernist period, we are familiar with the Freudian view of the origins of female homosexuality in the failure to resolve the socalled Electra complex and childhood "arrested development." We are far less familiar with two major non-pathological views of the etiology of lesbian identity as articulated in Sholem Asch's 1907 revolutionary play God of Vengeance and Gertrude Stein's 1922 short story "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene." This lecture will explore the representations of female homosexuality in all three of these works.

published: 24 Jan 2017

Can Globalization Be Governed?

To advocates like Tom Friedman, "Globalization" is a wonderful and natural process to which people need to adjust. To some critics, it is a dangerous pattern that needs to be resisted through public authority. And to others it is a process that is not natural at all, but encouraged by public policy that serves some interests at the expense of others.
If globalization were governed, how would that work, and in whose interest? Are there, in fact, efforts to govern aspects of globalization, such as international finance or global environmental threats, now? If so, how do or can they work, in the absence of world government? Tony Porter is one of the world's leading scholars of business regulation and global governance, especially financial regulation and processes of hybrid public/private ru...

published: 10 Jun 2014

MMWD Transnational Knowledge Transfer Workshop

Activity 5.4 PP School of Advanced Social Studies, SloveniaTransnational transfer of experiences (implementation of action plans of knowledge transfer developed in WP3 for those countries where the knowledge base does not allow for constructing population projections and policy scenarios)

Cambodia 2017 - Countering the Connectivity Conundrum

http://www.weforum.org/
Countering the Connectivity Conundrum
Cross-border flows of goods and capital in South-East Asia have shown marked growth and progress, but the same cannot be said for infrastructure. Roads, railways, power transmission cables, gas pipelines and other transnational connections have proven much harder to establish. How can ASEAN build truly pan-regional connectivity?
Dimensions to be addressed:
- Identifying opportunities with the highest economic and social returns
- Tackling obstacles to investment to bring infrastructure projects to life
- Improving commercial viability to attract private-sector capital
This session was developed in partnership with BeritaSatu.
Simultaneous interpretation in Khmer, Japanese, Chinese and English
This session will be livestreame...

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widesp...

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Dr. Greer has been involved in the highest levels of governments and military for over 25 years and will share what he has learned on the who, what, where and w...

Dr. Greer has been involved in the highest levels of governments and military for over 25 years and will share what he has learned on the who, what, where and why of UFO secrecy, the deep transnational security state and the constellation of illegal projects that are currently operating.
Join the founder of the global Disclosure movement, Dr. Steven Greer, in Washington D.C. for a unique opportunity to listen to the most comprehensive and explosive expose of UFO secrecy ever presented!
- Nov. 21, 2015
This 4 hour workshop will include:
- How is secrecy maintained through the hybrid of corporate and government programs?
- Which military bases and facilities and which corporations are involved in this secrecy?
- How is black-budget and criminal activity funding these operations?
- The Connection between the global financial system, UFO technology, drug running and covert military airspace and bases.
- Where are the key Underground Bases (UGBs) and how are they connected via subterranean tunnels?
- Who has been involved in managing this secrecy and how is the entity (MAJIC) controlled and operated?
- How do Unacknowledged SpecialAccessProjects (USAPs) operate and how are they kept secret from the people, the President and Congress?
- The History of UFO secrecy since WWII and how it has devolved into its own illegal transnational cartel.
- See explosive documents on secrecy, how human military-controlled "Abductions" are "stage-crafted" - and what is the agenda for this Deception.
- What is the future agenda for the cartel managing UFO secrecy - and how you need to prepare for this future!
- The Planned Cosmic 911 Deception - What you NEED to know!
... and MUCH MORE.
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/countries-releasing-ufo-information/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/project-aquarius-documents/
Email: info@siriusdisclosure.com
ANNOUNCING the Global CE-5 Initiative!
Global CE-5 Initiative – Saturday December 5, 2015
We are happy to announce the Global CE-5 Initiative Day.
On the first Saturday of each month, join others worldwide who want to unite in consciousness to reach out to the stars in UniversalPeace.
Thousands around the globe have already formed contact groups.
Now is the time to magnify global coherence by all of us coming together in higher consciousness in a way that can move the world and humanity onto the path of Universal Peace. Get together with your existing group or form a group of your own to reach out to the ETs with your intent for peaceful contact.
We are not choosing a specific time to meet but most groups meet in the evenings between 8 pm and midnight on their time zone.
Imagine each individual or group as a light shining from Earth into the Cosmos – all on the same day around the globe. The earth will be glowing.
If you want to form a group you can go to our free website/app – www.ETContactNetwork.com [http://www.etcontactnetwork.com/] and put in your name and contact information. If you don’t want to use your usual email, create a special email address just for this purpose and then you can form a group with others nearby. If you do not enter some form of contact information, no one will be able to reach you.
We will send out a reminder each month.
If you wish, share your experiences on the Facebook page : SiriusDisclosure
A BIGTHANK YOU TO ALL OF THE CE-5 CONTACT GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD FOR CONTINUING THE WORK OF PEACEFUL CONTACT BETWEEN EARTH AND OTHER INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATIONS!
- See more at: http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/announcing-the-global-ce-5-initiative/#sthash.O7cTUypM.dpuf
Join the Collective: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/communities/101782863897794974844
In case the link above doesn't work: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/s/spacenatives%20collective
In the rare case none of the above links work: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/s/spacenatives%20collective/communities

Dr. Greer has been involved in the highest levels of governments and military for over 25 years and will share what he has learned on the who, what, where and why of UFO secrecy, the deep transnational security state and the constellation of illegal projects that are currently operating.
Join the founder of the global Disclosure movement, Dr. Steven Greer, in Washington D.C. for a unique opportunity to listen to the most comprehensive and explosive expose of UFO secrecy ever presented!
- Nov. 21, 2015
This 4 hour workshop will include:
- How is secrecy maintained through the hybrid of corporate and government programs?
- Which military bases and facilities and which corporations are involved in this secrecy?
- How is black-budget and criminal activity funding these operations?
- The Connection between the global financial system, UFO technology, drug running and covert military airspace and bases.
- Where are the key Underground Bases (UGBs) and how are they connected via subterranean tunnels?
- Who has been involved in managing this secrecy and how is the entity (MAJIC) controlled and operated?
- How do Unacknowledged SpecialAccessProjects (USAPs) operate and how are they kept secret from the people, the President and Congress?
- The History of UFO secrecy since WWII and how it has devolved into its own illegal transnational cartel.
- See explosive documents on secrecy, how human military-controlled "Abductions" are "stage-crafted" - and what is the agenda for this Deception.
- What is the future agenda for the cartel managing UFO secrecy - and how you need to prepare for this future!
- The Planned Cosmic 911 Deception - What you NEED to know!
... and MUCH MORE.
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/countries-releasing-ufo-information/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/project-aquarius-documents/
Email: info@siriusdisclosure.com
ANNOUNCING the Global CE-5 Initiative!
Global CE-5 Initiative – Saturday December 5, 2015
We are happy to announce the Global CE-5 Initiative Day.
On the first Saturday of each month, join others worldwide who want to unite in consciousness to reach out to the stars in UniversalPeace.
Thousands around the globe have already formed contact groups.
Now is the time to magnify global coherence by all of us coming together in higher consciousness in a way that can move the world and humanity onto the path of Universal Peace. Get together with your existing group or form a group of your own to reach out to the ETs with your intent for peaceful contact.
We are not choosing a specific time to meet but most groups meet in the evenings between 8 pm and midnight on their time zone.
Imagine each individual or group as a light shining from Earth into the Cosmos – all on the same day around the globe. The earth will be glowing.
If you want to form a group you can go to our free website/app – www.ETContactNetwork.com [http://www.etcontactnetwork.com/] and put in your name and contact information. If you don’t want to use your usual email, create a special email address just for this purpose and then you can form a group with others nearby. If you do not enter some form of contact information, no one will be able to reach you.
We will send out a reminder each month.
If you wish, share your experiences on the Facebook page : SiriusDisclosure
A BIGTHANK YOU TO ALL OF THE CE-5 CONTACT GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD FOR CONTINUING THE WORK OF PEACEFUL CONTACT BETWEEN EARTH AND OTHER INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATIONS!
- See more at: http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/announcing-the-global-ce-5-initiative/#sthash.O7cTUypM.dpuf
Join the Collective: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/communities/101782863897794974844
In case the link above doesn't work: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/s/spacenatives%20collective
In the rare case none of the above links work: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/s/spacenatives%20collective/communities

Why are we building Holochain, a (not short) conversation

Click SHOW MORE to see useful timestamped labels of the whole conversation.
Matthew Schutte, Will Harris-Braun, and Eric Harris-Braun. Why are we building Holo...

Click SHOW MORE to see useful timestamped labels of the whole conversation.
Matthew Schutte, Will Harris-Braun, and Eric Harris-Braun. Why are we building Holochain?
!! Warning: this video has one instance of the work “fuck” in it. Other than that though, it’s pretty mild. Unless you’re afraid of snakes. Or revolutions. :slightly_smiling_face:
0:00 Brief small talk.
0:46 Talking about the structure and use of this conversation.
2:02 Will starts with his current, broad, understanding of Ceptr.
3:41 Out of the weeds: the bigger picture.
6:09 Intro to collective intelligence.
10:52 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: individuals.
16:12 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: groups.
18:04 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the individual voter.
21:11 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician running.
25:38 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician in office.
28:37 Laws as violence-enforced rules.
30:35 Money as acknowledgement of gratitude.
35:53 The problems with price.
46:41 Dollars as tools for collective intelligence.
47:40 Sense-making is hard in large communities.
49:42 The technology to make it work: making cultural practices visible.
51:49 Language and culture are personally held ideas that create distributed systems.
59:15 Governments and computer standards are centralized systems.
1:11:13 What do you do about it?: the concrete tools.
1:12:21 Hawaiian culture vs. Balinese culture.
1:15:10 How culture transforms.
1:17:08 On the internet, we are constrained by centralized systems to play by their rules.
1:19:34 This makes tyranny and censorship easy.
1:21:46 The logistics of holochain rulesets.
1:25:48 Holochain is a stepping stone/ladder rung/fertilized field towards Ceptr.
1:33:31 “It’s less about dollars and computers and more about what people think is possible.”
1:33:41 Some historical shifts in mental models.
1:36:08 Centralized vs. Decentralized vs. Distributed.
1:40:23 Linking distributed networks via shared nodes.
1:45:23 Completely customizable app integrations.
1:51:54 Making human connections and decision-making easier.
1:55:22 Holochain as a piece of Ceptr.
1:58:54 Distributed hosting with Holochain.
2:06:03 A somewhat embarrassing connection problem due to Will’s laptop battery running out.
2:07:29 “Are the aforementioned automations Holochain applications or are they another mechanism?”
2:12:25 The 20,000 foot view of Holochain.
2:17:21 Data integrity vs. UI.
2:22:39 Creative evolution: community guided, Holochain-based software evolving by selecting among intelligent mutations.
2:27:41 Wrapping up.

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Matthew Schutte, Will Harris-Braun, and Eric Harris-Braun. Why are we building Holochain?
!! Warning: this video has one instance of the work “fuck” in it. Other than that though, it’s pretty mild. Unless you’re afraid of snakes. Or revolutions. :slightly_smiling_face:
0:00 Brief small talk.
0:46 Talking about the structure and use of this conversation.
2:02 Will starts with his current, broad, understanding of Ceptr.
3:41 Out of the weeds: the bigger picture.
6:09 Intro to collective intelligence.
10:52 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: individuals.
16:12 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: groups.
18:04 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the individual voter.
21:11 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician running.
25:38 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician in office.
28:37 Laws as violence-enforced rules.
30:35 Money as acknowledgement of gratitude.
35:53 The problems with price.
46:41 Dollars as tools for collective intelligence.
47:40 Sense-making is hard in large communities.
49:42 The technology to make it work: making cultural practices visible.
51:49 Language and culture are personally held ideas that create distributed systems.
59:15 Governments and computer standards are centralized systems.
1:11:13 What do you do about it?: the concrete tools.
1:12:21 Hawaiian culture vs. Balinese culture.
1:15:10 How culture transforms.
1:17:08 On the internet, we are constrained by centralized systems to play by their rules.
1:19:34 This makes tyranny and censorship easy.
1:21:46 The logistics of holochain rulesets.
1:25:48 Holochain is a stepping stone/ladder rung/fertilized field towards Ceptr.
1:33:31 “It’s less about dollars and computers and more about what people think is possible.”
1:33:41 Some historical shifts in mental models.
1:36:08 Centralized vs. Decentralized vs. Distributed.
1:40:23 Linking distributed networks via shared nodes.
1:45:23 Completely customizable app integrations.
1:51:54 Making human connections and decision-making easier.
1:55:22 Holochain as a piece of Ceptr.
1:58:54 Distributed hosting with Holochain.
2:06:03 A somewhat embarrassing connection problem due to Will’s laptop battery running out.
2:07:29 “Are the aforementioned automations Holochain applications or are they another mechanism?”
2:12:25 The 20,000 foot view of Holochain.
2:17:21 Data integrity vs. UI.
2:22:39 Creative evolution: community guided, Holochain-based software evolving by selecting among intelligent mutations.
2:27:41 Wrapping up.

Transnational feminism and Sex Worker's Rights movements

My next guest is MeenaSeshu of SANGRAM, a grassroots organization that works with women in the community to create a collective consciousness among women, to i...

My next guest is MeenaSeshu of SANGRAM, a grassroots organization that works with women in the community to create a collective consciousness among women, to increase their ability to negotiate safety independently, and strengthen women to assert their rights. SANGRAM is renowned for its organizing and mobilization work among sex workers, and has been one of the leading voices in challenging the notion of sex work as sexual exploitation.

My next guest is MeenaSeshu of SANGRAM, a grassroots organization that works with women in the community to create a collective consciousness among women, to increase their ability to negotiate safety independently, and strengthen women to assert their rights. SANGRAM is renowned for its organizing and mobilization work among sex workers, and has been one of the leading voices in challenging the notion of sex work as sexual exploitation.

In the earlier Modernist period, we are familiar with the Freudian view of the origins of female homosexuality in the failure to resolve the socalled Electra co...

In the earlier Modernist period, we are familiar with the Freudian view of the origins of female homosexuality in the failure to resolve the socalled Electra complex and childhood "arrested development." We are far less familiar with two major non-pathological views of the etiology of lesbian identity as articulated in Sholem Asch's 1907 revolutionary play God of Vengeance and Gertrude Stein's 1922 short story "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene." This lecture will explore the representations of female homosexuality in all three of these works.

In the earlier Modernist period, we are familiar with the Freudian view of the origins of female homosexuality in the failure to resolve the socalled Electra complex and childhood "arrested development." We are far less familiar with two major non-pathological views of the etiology of lesbian identity as articulated in Sholem Asch's 1907 revolutionary play God of Vengeance and Gertrude Stein's 1922 short story "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene." This lecture will explore the representations of female homosexuality in all three of these works.

To advocates like Tom Friedman, "Globalization" is a wonderful and natural process to which people need to adjust. To some critics, it is a dangerous pattern that needs to be resisted through public authority. And to others it is a process that is not natural at all, but encouraged by public policy that serves some interests at the expense of others.
If globalization were governed, how would that work, and in whose interest? Are there, in fact, efforts to govern aspects of globalization, such as international finance or global environmental threats, now? If so, how do or can they work, in the absence of world government? Tony Porter is one of the world's leading scholars of business regulation and global governance, especially financial regulation and processes of hybrid public/private rule-making that cross international borders. Some of his recent research has studied creation of transnational rules produced by business associations and international standard-setting bodies; the Financial Stability Board created to coordinate central banks and national financial regulators in the wake of the financial crisis; and influences on international elites from processes such as OECD peer reviews of "best practices" in national governance. ProfessorPorter's newest edited volume, Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis (Routledge), includes a chapter by our own Professor Lavelle and will be released shortly before his visit to CWRU.
This program was made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin.
Tony Porter is a professor of political science and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research for the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University. He conducts research on business regulation and global governance, including especially financial regulation, private and hybrid public/private rule-making, the organizational effects in governance of technologies, and safety and environmental standards in the automobile industry. Professor Porter is the author of Globalization and Finance (Polity Press, 2005), Technology, Governance and Political Conflict in International Industries, (Routledge, 2002), and States, Markets, and Regimes in Global Finance, (Macmillan, 1993). He co-edited The Challenges of GlobalBusinessAuthority: Democratic Renewal, Stalemate or Decay? (SUNY Press, 2010) with Kirsten Ronit, and Private Authority in International Affairs (SUNY Press, 1999) with A. Claire Cutler and Virginia Haufler. His most recent works include a new book with Heather McKeen-Edwards, Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Wealth and Power (Routledge 2013), and an edited volume on Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis (Routledge, release scheduled for February 2014).

To advocates like Tom Friedman, "Globalization" is a wonderful and natural process to which people need to adjust. To some critics, it is a dangerous pattern that needs to be resisted through public authority. And to others it is a process that is not natural at all, but encouraged by public policy that serves some interests at the expense of others.
If globalization were governed, how would that work, and in whose interest? Are there, in fact, efforts to govern aspects of globalization, such as international finance or global environmental threats, now? If so, how do or can they work, in the absence of world government? Tony Porter is one of the world's leading scholars of business regulation and global governance, especially financial regulation and processes of hybrid public/private rule-making that cross international borders. Some of his recent research has studied creation of transnational rules produced by business associations and international standard-setting bodies; the Financial Stability Board created to coordinate central banks and national financial regulators in the wake of the financial crisis; and influences on international elites from processes such as OECD peer reviews of "best practices" in national governance. ProfessorPorter's newest edited volume, Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis (Routledge), includes a chapter by our own Professor Lavelle and will be released shortly before his visit to CWRU.
This program was made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin.
Tony Porter is a professor of political science and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research for the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University. He conducts research on business regulation and global governance, including especially financial regulation, private and hybrid public/private rule-making, the organizational effects in governance of technologies, and safety and environmental standards in the automobile industry. Professor Porter is the author of Globalization and Finance (Polity Press, 2005), Technology, Governance and Political Conflict in International Industries, (Routledge, 2002), and States, Markets, and Regimes in Global Finance, (Macmillan, 1993). He co-edited The Challenges of GlobalBusinessAuthority: Democratic Renewal, Stalemate or Decay? (SUNY Press, 2010) with Kirsten Ronit, and Private Authority in International Affairs (SUNY Press, 1999) with A. Claire Cutler and Virginia Haufler. His most recent works include a new book with Heather McKeen-Edwards, Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Wealth and Power (Routledge 2013), and an edited volume on Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis (Routledge, release scheduled for February 2014).

Activity 5.4 PP School of Advanced Social Studies, SloveniaTransnational transfer of experiences (implementation of action plans of knowledge transfer developed in WP3 for those countries where the knowledge base does not allow for constructing population projections and policy scenarios)

Activity 5.4 PP School of Advanced Social Studies, SloveniaTransnational transfer of experiences (implementation of action plans of knowledge transfer developed in WP3 for those countries where the knowledge base does not allow for constructing population projections and policy scenarios)

International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

5:53

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and ...

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

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What is a Multinational Corporation?

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a busine...

What is a Multinational Corporation?

Our word of the day is “Multinational Corporation”
A multinational corporation is a business that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they co-ordinate global management.
Generally, any company or group that derives a quarter of its revenue from operations outside of its home country is considered a multinational corporation.
There are four categories of multinational corporations: (1) a multinational, decentralized corporation with strong home country presence, (2) a global, centralized corporation that acquires cost advantage through centralized production wherever cheaper resources are available, (3) an international company that builds on the parent corporation's technology or R&D, or (4) a transnational enterprise that combines the previous three approaches. According to UN data, some 35,000 companies have direct investment in foreign countries, and the largest 100 of them control about 40 percent of world trade.
In economic terms, a firm’s advantages in establishing a multinational corporation include both vertical and horizontal economies of scale and an increased market share. Although cultural barriers can create unpredictable obstacles as companies establish offices and production plants around the world, a firm’s technical expertise, experienced personnel, and proven strategies usually can be transferred from country to country. Critics of the multinational corporation usually view it as an economic and, often, political means of foreign domination.
By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy

What Is Lobbying and Can It Be Good?

A citizen’s right to lobby plays a tremendous role in politics. Yet today lobbying is big business known to have a revolving door with Congress. What is lobbying really about, and can it be fundamentally good?
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Honesty and EthicsRating of Clergy Slides to New Lowhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/166298/honesty-ethics-rating-clergy-slides-new-low.aspx
"Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977."
Seven in 10 Americans Say Lobbyists Have Too MuchPower
http://www.gallup.com/video/147020/Seven-Americans-Say-Lobbyists-Power.aspx
"Gallup Editor-in-Chief FrankNewport reveals that out of a list of 10 U.S. entities, Americans are most likely to say lobbyists have too much power and are least likely to say the same about the military."
National Conference of State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/lobbyist-regulation.aspx
LobbyistRegulation
Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An EmpiricalCaseStudy of Tax Breaks for Multinational Corporations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082
"In this paper we use audited corporate tax disclosures relating to a tax holiday on repatriated earnings created by the American JobsCreation Act of 2004 to examine the return on lobbying."
Lobbying for the Greater Good
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater-good/
"Earlier this month, scientists reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had reached 400 parts per million."
For Hire: Lobbyists or the 99%
http://publicampaign.org/sites/default/files/ReportTaxDodgerLobbyingDec6.pdf
"Amidst a growing federal deficit and widespread economic insecurity for most Americans, some of the largest corporations in the country have avoided paying their fair share in taxes while spending millions to lobby Congress and influence elections."
So Who's a Lobbyist
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/so-whos-a-lobbyist.html?_r=0
Under the federal lobbying law, Newt Gingrich can legitimately claim that he is not a lobbyist.
ObamaTransition announces rules for lobbyists in Transition
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/obama_transition_announces_rules_for_lobbyists_in_transition/
During a briefing today at the Presidential Transition Team headquarters, Obama Transition Co-Chair John Podesta announced the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history.
Obama slams lobbyists, then hires a lobbyist to help promote Obamacare
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/14/administration-changed-its-tune-hired-lobbying-fir/?page=all
"On the campaign trail, President Obama vowed that lobbyists would have no place in his administration, but his health care agency last month gave a half-million-dollar grant to a registered lobbying firm to help enroll people for Obamacare as Affordable Care Act "navigators."
W.H. to reverse part of lobbyist ban
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/lobbyist-ban-reversal-white-house-109951.html#.U-o9ap01lZY.twitter
"The White House is poised to reverse a key part of its ban on registered lobbyists serving in government."
Former White House lawyer defends Obama limits on lobbying, hints at possible changes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-white-house-lawyer-defends-obama-limits-on-lobbying-hints-at-possible-changes/2014/03/23/c84e28da-aeb6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html
"Before Bob Bauer started his lunchtime speech at a recent conference, his host wanted to make absolutely certain that the former White House counsel knew his audience."
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Transnational Dialogues | Interview with Julijana Nicha

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Julijana Nicha is a policy researcher that lives and works across Belo Horizonte and Lisbon.
The interview was recorded during the NomadicResidency of TransnationalDialogues, Beijing, June 2016. Filming and editing by Gaia Alberti.
Started in 2011 by the non profit NGOEuropean Alternatives, Transnational Dialogues is an open and on-going cross-media platform managing and imagining artistic and cultural projects with a focus on the new geographies of globalisation and the emergence of a multi-polar artistic and intellectual world. Transnational Dialogues facilitates artists, creatives, professionals, intellectuals and writers to come together for a series of exchanges in both physical form and online. The platform promotes sharing of information, networking, and conceptual collaboration between individuals, organisations and institutions working in a variety of disciplines transnationally, and offers a trampoline for future collaborations and initiatives.
www.transnationaldialogues.eu

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Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue...

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

film EOR Works Councils

Globalisation, restructuring, and corporate strategies have consequences on employment and working conditions, especially in multinationals. Employees need to be properly informed and consulted at European level for these processes to be managed in a balanced and socially responsible way. European Works Councils (EWCs) fulfil this role, representing all European employees of a company in meetings with central management. In any company employing over 1 000 employees in at least two EU Member States, transnational information and consultation of employees through the creation of an EWC is a right underpinned by a European Directive, which has been reinforced.

International Labour Law Now: Towards the Transnational Governance of Work

The 8thAnnual Innis ChristieSymposium in Labour and Employment Law presented by Prof. Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender StudiesInstitute at the University of Toronto.
Work and workers across the globe are increasingly connected, through trade agreements, global manufacturing supply chains, migration and the outsourcing of work. At the same time, the new economy is producing short term contracts, "just in time" scheduling and other forms of insecurity for workers, while global competition among firms and workers place pressure on labour standards and workers’ associational rights.
What role do international labour standards, the ILO (International Labour Organization) and other international institutions play when it comes to workers’ rights and domestic labour law? How do corporations and private actors affect the terms and conditions of work through codes of conduct and industry standards like the Bangladesh accord, and how do labour and social justice activists mobilize those norms through legal and political action? Beyond labour standards, how might trade and investment agreements like the Transpacific TradePartnership affect the position of workers? And how might development initiatives simultaneously advance
and weaken the position of workers and labour?

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh

Nike Sweatshops: Behind the Swoosh is the ultimate video for exploring the sweatshop issue. Using Nike as a case study, the film documents first hand the widespread and oppressive and exploitative labor practices in the developing world.
Used as a resource by faculty members and community leaders across the country, Behind the Swoosh is appropriate for use in classrooms, libraries, conferences, churches, community centers and union halls.
To learn more about the fight against Nike sweatshops, visit www.facebook.com/teamsweat or www.teamsweat.org.

Dr. Greer has been involved in the highest levels of governments and military for over 25 years and will share what he has learned on the who, what, where and why of UFO secrecy, the deep transnational security state and the constellation of illegal projects that are currently operating.
Join the founder of the global Disclosure movement, Dr. Steven Greer, in Washington D.C. for a unique opportunity to listen to the most comprehensive and explosive expose of UFO secrecy ever presented!
- Nov. 21, 2015
This 4 hour workshop will include:
- How is secrecy maintained through the hybrid of corporate and government programs?
- Which military bases and facilities and which corporations are involved in this secrecy?
- How is black-budget and criminal activity funding these operations?
- The Connection between the global financial system, UFO technology, drug running and covert military airspace and bases.
- Where are the key Underground Bases (UGBs) and how are they connected via subterranean tunnels?
- Who has been involved in managing this secrecy and how is the entity (MAJIC) controlled and operated?
- How do Unacknowledged SpecialAccessProjects (USAPs) operate and how are they kept secret from the people, the President and Congress?
- The History of UFO secrecy since WWII and how it has devolved into its own illegal transnational cartel.
- See explosive documents on secrecy, how human military-controlled "Abductions" are "stage-crafted" - and what is the agenda for this Deception.
- What is the future agenda for the cartel managing UFO secrecy - and how you need to prepare for this future!
- The Planned Cosmic 911 Deception - What you NEED to know!
... and MUCH MORE.
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/countries-releasing-ufo-information/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/evidence/project-aquarius-documents/
Email: info@siriusdisclosure.com
ANNOUNCING the Global CE-5 Initiative!
Global CE-5 Initiative – Saturday December 5, 2015
We are happy to announce the Global CE-5 Initiative Day.
On the first Saturday of each month, join others worldwide who want to unite in consciousness to reach out to the stars in UniversalPeace.
Thousands around the globe have already formed contact groups.
Now is the time to magnify global coherence by all of us coming together in higher consciousness in a way that can move the world and humanity onto the path of Universal Peace. Get together with your existing group or form a group of your own to reach out to the ETs with your intent for peaceful contact.
We are not choosing a specific time to meet but most groups meet in the evenings between 8 pm and midnight on their time zone.
Imagine each individual or group as a light shining from Earth into the Cosmos – all on the same day around the globe. The earth will be glowing.
If you want to form a group you can go to our free website/app – www.ETContactNetwork.com [http://www.etcontactnetwork.com/] and put in your name and contact information. If you don’t want to use your usual email, create a special email address just for this purpose and then you can form a group with others nearby. If you do not enter some form of contact information, no one will be able to reach you.
We will send out a reminder each month.
If you wish, share your experiences on the Facebook page : SiriusDisclosure
A BIGTHANK YOU TO ALL OF THE CE-5 CONTACT GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD FOR CONTINUING THE WORK OF PEACEFUL CONTACT BETWEEN EARTH AND OTHER INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATIONS!
- See more at: http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/announcing-the-global-ce-5-initiative/#sthash.O7cTUypM.dpuf
Join the Collective: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/communities/101782863897794974844
In case the link above doesn't work: https://plus.google.com/b/114228398532289445690/s/spacenatives%20collective
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2:29:02

Why are we building Holochain, a (not short) conversation

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Matthew Schut...

Why are we building Holochain, a (not short) conversation

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Matthew Schutte, Will Harris-Braun, and Eric Harris-Braun. Why are we building Holochain?
!! Warning: this video has one instance of the work “fuck” in it. Other than that though, it’s pretty mild. Unless you’re afraid of snakes. Or revolutions. :slightly_smiling_face:
0:00 Brief small talk.
0:46 Talking about the structure and use of this conversation.
2:02 Will starts with his current, broad, understanding of Ceptr.
3:41 Out of the weeds: the bigger picture.
6:09 Intro to collective intelligence.
10:52 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: individuals.
16:12 Sense, Interpret, Decide, Prioritize, Act: groups.
18:04 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the individual voter.
21:11 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician running.
25:38 Politics through the lens of SIDPA: the politician in office.
28:37 Laws as violence-enforced rules.
30:35 Money as acknowledgement of gratitude.
35:53 The problems with price.
46:41 Dollars as tools for collective intelligence.
47:40 Sense-making is hard in large communities.
49:42 The technology to make it work: making cultural practices visible.
51:49 Language and culture are personally held ideas that create distributed systems.
59:15 Governments and computer standards are centralized systems.
1:11:13 What do you do about it?: the concrete tools.
1:12:21 Hawaiian culture vs. Balinese culture.
1:15:10 How culture transforms.
1:17:08 On the internet, we are constrained by centralized systems to play by their rules.
1:19:34 This makes tyranny and censorship easy.
1:21:46 The logistics of holochain rulesets.
1:25:48 Holochain is a stepping stone/ladder rung/fertilized field towards Ceptr.
1:33:31 “It’s less about dollars and computers and more about what people think is possible.”
1:33:41 Some historical shifts in mental models.
1:36:08 Centralized vs. Decentralized vs. Distributed.
1:40:23 Linking distributed networks via shared nodes.
1:45:23 Completely customizable app integrations.
1:51:54 Making human connections and decision-making easier.
1:55:22 Holochain as a piece of Ceptr.
1:58:54 Distributed hosting with Holochain.
2:06:03 A somewhat embarrassing connection problem due to Will’s laptop battery running out.
2:07:29 “Are the aforementioned automations Holochain applications or are they another mechanism?”
2:12:25 The 20,000 foot view of Holochain.
2:17:21 Data integrity vs. UI.
2:22:39 Creative evolution: community guided, Holochain-based software evolving by selecting among intelligent mutations.
2:27:41 Wrapping up.

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